Word: fading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy (and perhaps Di Salle) was sunk in Ohio. Kennedy rallied to take the lead in the fight for Minnesota's 11 electoral votes-enough to put him over the top according to most calculations, come what might in California. But then Kennedy's margin began to fade in Illinois as downstate votes came in. Nixon refused to quit...
...government polls show, U.S. Prestige has declined, because we have "given an image of reaching middle age and beginning to fade...
...boxers never dive; they just fade away into legitimate businesses. Last week James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, 62, world heavyweight champion from 1926 until he retired as an undefeated millionaire in 1928, was elected a director of Alleghany Corp., which is presumably strengthening its corner for a proxy fight with Texas' hard-swinging Murchison brothers (TIME, Oct. 3). In another corner, Rocky (Somebody Up There Likes Me) Graziano, 38, middleweight champion of a decade ago, was named president of a Long Island bowling center owned by New York's Acme Missiles & Construction Corp...
...presidency in the far corners of the earth. As the U.S. cotter pin in the United Nations, Lodge was given Cabinet status and a large voice in U.S. policy-and grew in stature to measure up to both. President Eisenhower was determined that neither of his lieutenants should fade away...
...thereby fortified the already widespread impression that he has resigned himself to a caretaker's role during the remaining half-year of his presidency. If Ike lets his Administration fade out in that drab role, he may do more than any Democratic candidate to damage his party's prospects in the November elections...